Tuesday, September 11, 2012

I'm now getting stuck in to painting the life size elephant Midnight Rose. She stands about 1.4m high in this sitting position, which is about the size of a 5 year old baby elephant I think. She's ceratinly filling my studio and not leaving me much room to move!

Friday, August 24, 2012

I was very pleased earlier this year to be asked to create and paint designs on 'life size' sculptures of the Olympic mascot.

These Wenlocks were created for Stroll Discovery Trails, an event produced by Wild in Art for the Mayor of London's 'A Summer Like No Other' festival. The Stroll Discovery Trails event features over 80 sculptures of Wenlock, the official Olympic mascot and Mandeville, the official Paralympic mascot - on display around London during the summer, until the end of the Paralympic Games.

My first design was 'Plane Trees Wenlock' and it is on the Purple Trail situated in Berkeley Square Gardens Mayfair, very appropriately amongst the beautiful London Plane Trees.

The other design was 'Westminster Abbey Wenlock' and is situated on the Red Trail in Victoria Tower Gardens Westminster.

The mascot sculptures are all being auctioned for theMayor’s Fund for London which was set up in 2009 to help improve the life chances and aspirations of disadvantaged children, young people and their families in London. The money will help fund the most effective child poverty projects in London.

I'm delighted that Plane Trees Wenlock and Westminster Abbey Wenlock have already been auctioned and together raised nearly £18,000 for the Mayor's Fund for London.

Friday, August 17, 2012

The little version of Midnight Rose has flown off to Thailand where the talented local artists hand paint the beautiful replica's. I hope she has a safe journey!

I'm now starting work on the big one, the design is inspired by Guy Bellamy's colourful garden. It incorporates a stylised version of the Elephant's footprint logo of his company 'Elephant Communications', as looped daisies against a pink moon.